Philip Ruddock (Berowra, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister correctly acknowledged that I have said that the Howard government solutions are not a menu that you can pick and choose from and all must be implemented to deal with this issue. I do acknowledge, given the size of the problem with something like 35,000 unlawfuls, that more might need to be done, but I have said in relation to the Malaysian solution, as it is called, that it is seriously flawed and would not work as proposed by the government.

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